Corrine Malcolm, the Multitasker

Olympic biathlon hopeful discusses life as a full-time athlete and her desire to compete at an elite level in mountain running, a sport she isn’t specifically training for.

Photo by Viktoria Franke

On May 5, Corrine Malcolm was doing intervals up Whiteface Mountain outside Lake Placid, New York, where she was going through training camp with the US Biathlon team, when she had an epiphany.

“I realized I was doing intervals while my college class was graduating,” she says.

Malcolm, 22, had left Montana State University in Bozeman two years earlier to pursue the biathlon full-time. “On the men’s team, only one of the six has a college degree,” she says. “But on the women’s side, I’m the only one of the seven who doesn’t have one. So it’s a work in progress.”